For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

Some lucky kids ... from solar vocabulary to safety tips to creative lesson plans, like pinhole projectors and tinfoil solar glasses. Students can model the earth and moon system with just a ...

If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers believe it ...

Discover the powerful volcanic eruptions that have shaped worlds across our solar system. Around our solar system, violent eruptions are shaping distant worlds. Discover the explosive forces that ...

The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of our solar system. But while it has been accepted as a theory for over 70 years ...

(Check out the NASA Kids page with lots of activities from building your own solar system to coloring books to even a solar system cookbook (Gummy Greenhouse Gases, perhaps?) San Francisco’s ...

From the lead-melting heart of Venus to the mysterious ocean worlds of the outer solar system, you can’t go ... hearing your kids splashing away in the methane. That’s right, methane.

These massive stars, located nearby, would have put the early Solar System at risk of a powerful supernova. This risk is more than just hypothetical; a research team at the National Astronomical ...